The Donkey Cabbage
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid. · Julia Norton - storyteller, singer and voice actor
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (traffic.libsyn.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
A friend recently gave me Philip Pullman's 'Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm', I can't recommend it highly enough. This story is from there.
He says "As quite often in Grimm, we have two separate story types sewn together here. Once the hunter has the bird's heart and the wishing cloak, he could in theory go on to any kind of adventure. The story of the cabbage (sometimes translated as lettuce) which turns whoever eats it into a donkey has no logical connection with the first part of the story, but they fit together very well."